A. A. Kaminskii, S. N. Bagayev, L. E. Li, F. A. Kuznetsov, A. A. Pavlyuk, “New crystalline lasers for the 1-μm wavelength range”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1996, Volume 23, Number 1,Pages <nobr>3

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Letters to the editor

New crystalline lasers for the 1-μm wavelength range

A. A. Kaminskii^a, S. N. Bagayev^b, L. E. Li^a, F. A. Kuznetsov^c, A. A. Pavlyuk^c

^a A V Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federaion
^b Institute of Laser Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
^c A V Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Abstract: New laser crystals were prepared from potassium-rare-earth tungstates KY(WO₄)₂ and KGd(WO₄)₂ activated with Pr³⁺ ions. Flashlamp pumping at room temperature resulted in low-threshold pulsed and quasi-cw generation of stimulated radiation in the ‘neodymium’ range of wavelengths (1.06 — 1.07 μm, ¹D₂ → ³F₄ lasing channel).

PACS: 42.70.Hj, 42.55.Rz

Received: 01.01.1996